"Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray……" — Alastair Reynolds
"Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit."
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14 Quotes by Alastair Reynolds
Alastair Reynolds has 14 quotes on this site.
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At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through…
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I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to…
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Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.
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Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.
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It's an ancient technique known as lying, Khouri.
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A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy.
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Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't last for…
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As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do…
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You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.
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How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’…
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It looked like a biology lesson for gods, or a snapshot of the kind of pornography which might be enjoyed…
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I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.
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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
— Annie Besant
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At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life…
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I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost…
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Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney…
— Joe Biden
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert…
— Orlando Bloom
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A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks…
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When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain…
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Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of…
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
— Wernher von Braun
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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